Choices - Fiction
Camus - The Outsider
 | The Outsider by Albert Camus “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know". These are the famous opening lines of "The Outsider", the best-selling French novel of the 20th century. The hero, Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. He is condemned in part because of his refusal to express remorse. Written in 1942, this existentialist novel explores the predicament of the individual who refuses to pretend and is prepared to face the indifference of society alone. In the survey of men’s reading undertaken by London University on behalf of The Orange Prize – Men’s Milestone Fiction – this came top (in the equivalent survey for women, they chose Jane Eyre…..) 10 copies |
